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2004-12-22 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by tipper 2004-12-22 2:14:09 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Why do the MSM/LLL/etc. remind me so much of the old tyme Gnostic Christians?

The very inability of their (LLL now, Gnostic then) plans and schema to function in the real world is proof (Proof!) that their plans and schema are perfect. Too perfect for the flawed and fallen world, appearently.

That and the utter unwillingness to deal with the world as it is. Or for that matter, utter unwiliingness to take responsibility for much of anything.

I wonder how the early Church fathers kept from going bonkers dealing with the same sort of Gnostic thinking we see today in the LLL. I could benefit from some of that patientce.

As for Europe, with some exceptions (TGA, JFM, et al) they deserve a generation or two under the Islamic yoke. Appearently the Soviet era was not lesson enough.

Sorry about the Ranting, but this stuff before I finish my first coffee is a bit much!

Posted by N Guard 2004-12-22 8:30:58 AM|| 2004-12-22 8:30:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Too perfect for the flawed and fallen world, apparently. That and the utter unwillingness to deal with the world as it is. Or for that matter, utter unwiliingness to take responsibility for much of anything.

I so agree with you! Many of my friends are liberals and they are wonderful, intelligent, well meaning people. I'd suggest that they just take it on faith.

Posted by 2b 2004-12-22 8:38:11 AM|| 2004-12-22 8:38:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 We need to get this message out. Yesterday, I drove by the memorial bridge and some moonbats were putting up luminaries for the dead soldiers in the center divider. The press trucks were all over it. It offended me, which is a shame, because in another time or place, it would have been a touching gesture.

I wished I had a cam-corder and was able to stop and interview one of the ghoulish figures lighting the candles. After a few standard questions, I would have like to have asked them,

"How would you respond to the people who say that you are not here to support the troops, but rather to use their deaths as a cheap publicity stunt for partisan purposes?"

Posted by 2b 2004-12-22 8:52:56 AM|| 2004-12-22 8:52:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 The MSM are willing and knowing allies of the terrorists. This article mentions their giving the terrorists cover for attacking wounded and medical personal - the murders know that the MSM would not mention this while going all apeshit over the interrogation rooms in GITMO being too warm (in a tropical area).

Even now the MSM barely mention the rapes by UN troops in Congo or what is happening (murder / rapes) in western Sudan.

And don't forget the Russian school where the MSM was unwilling (no... absolutely refused) to name them as 'terrorists' or even mention that they were, to a person, muslim.

The people you mention 2b are probably more victims of the MSM-Al-Q alliance then anything else. They don't see the mass graves, the gourged out eyes of little girls, the rapes or rape rooms. What they do see is a distored view (over several months) of the Prison abuse, GITMO, etc.... I kind of feel sorry for them -- but not too sorry - they choose to be ignorant.

Luckily the MSM is (hopefully) in a death cycle. All I can say is 'faster please'.

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-12-22 9:50:28 AM|| 2004-12-22 9:50:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Faster please! So true. Rather than blame my friends, I prefer to blame those who mislead them. They aren't bad people, they just have been ~~mis~~led - like millions before them - to believe that they are helping, not hurting. It is those who seek to abuse their kindness and compassion that I blame.

Posted by 2b 2004-12-22 10:15:02 AM|| 2004-12-22 10:15:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 2b-I like your idea. I hope to see as many people as possible confronting the press with this same kind of question:

"How would you respond to the people who say that you are not here to support the troops, but rather to use their deaths as a cheap publicity stunt for partisan purposes?"

Or What do you say to the families of killed servicemen after you accuse their loved ones, American soldiers, of carelessly or intentionally killing Iraqis when those soldiers have just given up their lives to help Iraqis and people the world over?

Posted by Jules 187 2004-12-22 10:29:04 AM|| 2004-12-22 10:29:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 It will be interesting to see whether the enemy fire originated from a populated area, preventing counterbattery.

Methinks a change in the ROE would be a good idea. "Sensitivity" has its limits, and as far as I'm concerned, if it wasn't surpassed long ago it was definitely reached with this attack.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-12-22 4:39:26 PM|| 2004-12-22 4:39:26 PM|| Front Page Top

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